Honeysuckles from the depths of hades

How do you kill, dead.. a bushy honeysuckle? I can't dig the roots so thats out.. I think its Winter Honeysuckle.. but not sure.. I just cal it the beast that came to eat my yard.

I should probally add I am willing to do anything short of burning it.. can't get away with that. blowing it up with a nuclear bomb.. they don't carry those at Farm and Fleet.. or chaining it my truck and dragging it out.. I would it wasn't grown arround the nieghbors fence.

I was just at this account today that had aphids all over their crab trees that were rejects from the honeysuckle aphid magnet nearby.

You could try the basal painting with a tree and shrub killer - active ingredient triclopyr. Read the directions beforehand and do not cut the stump until you are ready to treat it.

I just went for one today. It was too big to hook up to the lawn mower and yank out. Their roots are pretty shallow but this bush was gigantic. I took a tarp and layed it out and then I started standing on the branches to get them over the tarp and I sprayed them one by one with good old Round Up. That was that. It should be dead in about 10 days or else I'll repeat the process. I hate Japanese Honeysuckles.

Oops, typing when Al was typing. Triclopyr will work perfectly well too. It's the active ingredient in Ortho's Poison Ivy and Heavy Brush Killer. It's called Brush B Gon.

Oh my gosh! Welcome to Dave's Garden Colquhoun! I just realized you signed up a few days ago. So glad to have you.

Thank you :) I am so glad to be here. The people at DG have been so wonderfull :) Its already more then paid for itself.. my irises came with instructions on how to kill an iris instead of how to plant one.. We just got this house a few years ago.. this is our first summer of working on the outside of it.. it was cheap.. and for a reason but its a nice home and the inside is more or less done.. one floor to tile and the molding for the hall is still in the hall closet. The yard is finally starting to look like a yard. The previous owners had just put a sign in the yard and went to Florida.. the backyard with poison ivy and 6 foot tall pigweed that went to seed.. so last year all we did was make the jungle into a yard. Ortho Poison Ivy Killer is what we used on it.

We don't have any bush type honeysuckles here. All we have is vines that seem to go on for miles.

Colquhoun, your honeysuckle is probably Lonicera maackii. That's the common problem species in central Illinois.

And welcome aboard! Are you getting any rain over their in Champaign? We're so dry here in Petersburg right now it's beginning to look like 2005.

Guy S.

We got rain last weekend.. when we planned to paint the house
we got rain the week before.. when we planned to seal the driveway
now those are out of the way.. dry as a bone.

Lonicera maackii.. thats the one, thank you.. now I know what to call it as I cuss it.

Hi ! I am happy I found you. I had my great sons dig an area for a rock garden last fall, and I have been busy getting ready to start planting, only to find out just by coincidence that I shouldn't plant the garden because it is around a black walnut tree. I never realized that that would be a problem. So, I am looking to find plants that will survive there instead of turning all of our work back to grass. HELP!! By the way, if you are wondering at my weird name, I keep forgetting mine, so I decided to use the first initials of our family. I have 6 wonderful children!! So, it does make sense to me and I won't forget it!!

Welcome aboard, alphabet soup!

I suggest starting a new thread "Planting under walnuts" so your question doesn't get lost in this other thread. It's easy, and you will get many suggestions. Walnuts aren't nearly as toxic as their reputation suggests as long as you avoid trying the relatively few plant groups that cannot tolerate their Juglone.

Guy S.

Thier was a great thread a week or to ok on Black Walnuts. Its in the Daylily thread I think.. maybe irises. I can't remember now.

I wish I knew the stuff we used out at my dad's house. We cut it down and sprayed it with this "stuff". The "stuff" was blue. Stump killer, I know that. The one's we got last year have not made an appearance this year. Now only 35 bazillion to go!